For the OP of this meme, you know you can still pay for food services on flights today, right?
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FelixCress@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Someone clearly doesn’t understand how much it used to cost to travel by plane 50 years ago.
PP_BOY_@lemmy.world 1 month ago
EleventhHour@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Ehh…
The bottom line
Proportionally (inflation considered), flights are much cheaper now than they were 50 years ago. Consequently, flying is a more accessible mode of transport for many and has resulted in the soaring popularity of air travel, which began after deregulation. However, despite the cost drop, the base cost of flying has increased as airlines operate small profit margins and seek to remain competitive.
jaybone@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Yeah but it sucks.
Rinox@feddit.it 1 month ago
If you want you can go first class you know. It’s more or less as much as it was in the 50s and you get possibly even more luxury. Just be ready to pay 5k instead of a hundred bucks
VelvetStorm@lemmy.world 1 month ago
It was like 135 bucks for the cheapest unrestricted ticket in the usa in 1975, which comes out to around 814 bucks today. Where as I can buy a round-trip ticket right now for 220, which is the equivalent of 38 bucks in 1975.
And to really put that into perspective, an average house in 1975 cost 39k, and if you take out a 20-year lone with 9% interest, you are looking at 193 bucks per month for your rent. So a single plane ticket in 1975 was 69% of the average monthly rent for a house.
Idk why I did all this, but my adhd told me I had to.
return2ozma@lemmy.world 1 month ago
It’s a shit post
SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Life’s been tough since Biden dropped out, hey?
MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
Would be better if it still was. Less people would fly.
aidan@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Not everyone’s situtation is yours. There are millions of people living continents away from their family to earn money to support them.
jaybone@lemmy.world 1 month ago
But back then the price was regulated to they had to compete on service.
That might have been more that 50 years now.
Wogi@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Also this image is bullshit
Tray tables are about half that size now.
morrowind@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
Not on longer flights. It doesn’t benefit airlines much to make smaller tray tables
deranger@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Save on weight means save on gas. Multiply that by thousands of flights and it adds up. United printed their in flight magazines on lighter paper and saved hundreds of thousands of dollars, just by using thinner paper.
kiwi.com/…/united-prints-lighter-magazine-saves-1…
slaacaa@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Good example, aviation is probably the most penny-fucking business in the planet, it’s a life and death fight between the companies, trying to keep costs low.
morrowind@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
United makes 50B in revenue a year. I’m guessing that stunt gave them more value in marketing than actual savings.
ryathal@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
It’s a good pr thing, but they probably saved more money by using lower quality paper than the saved fuel.
Wogi@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I suppose I don’t take many long flights and I don’t recall how much space I had on the last long flight I had.
Typically on my domestic flights I have a tray table that won’t fit my switch if I want to stand it up.